SERVER cant store article: File exists

[Russ Allbery]

Pavel V Knyazev <pasha at surnet.ru> writes:

> I got a lot of this:

> Nov 12 04:04:42 wild innd: SERVER cant open /var/log/news/expire.lowmark No
> such file or directory
> Nov 12 04:04:46 wild innd: tradspool: could not open
> /news/spool/articles/fido7/ru/security/23 File exists
> Nov 12 04:04:46 wild innd: SERVER cant store article: File exists
> Nov 12 04:04:46 wild rnews: cant unspool saving to
> /news/spool/incoming/bad/Y6YFcl
> Nov 12 04:04:46 wild innd: tradspool: could not open
> /news/spool/articles/fido7/ru/security/24 File exists
> Nov 12 04:04:46 wild innd: SERVER cant store article: File exists
> [...]
> Nov 12 04:54:01 wild innd: tradspool: could not open
> /news/spool/articles/fido7/ru/antichrist/4 File exists
> Nov 12 04:54:01 wild innd: SERVER throttle File exists writing SMstore
> file -- throttling
> Nov 12 04:54:01 wild innd: SERVER cant store article: File exists

> I'm using a default /usr/news/bin/news.daily lowmark delayrm to expire.
> (Maybe i should've removed "lowmark"?)

lowmark should be fine.  I don't know why news.daily didn't generate a
lowmark file.  I expect that there's some other error message somewhere,
perhaps in the nightly report.

You need to at least rebuild the overview for fido7.ru.security and
fido7.ru.antichrist, which you should be able to do with tdx-util -R.

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